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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
IMSLEC
Old English
Visual Learners
Towre
2. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Towre
Percentile
Middle English
Derived Score
3. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Latin layer of language
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
4. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Dyslexia
Reading Comprehension Support
Morpheme
5. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Curriculum referenced tests
Composite Score
Vowel Digraph
Auditory Processing
6. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Mathew Effect
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Visual Learners
7. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Norm-Referenced Test
Receptive language
Fluency
VV
8. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Chall's Stage 1
Accent
WRAT
Consonant
9. Whole body learning
Base Word
Adolf Kusmaul
Kinesthetic
Three Layers of Language
10. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Standardized test
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
IMSLEC
Universal Screening
11. Closed syllable
Affix
Curriculum referenced tests
VC
Phonics
12. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Anna Gillingham
IDEA
Morphology
13. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Comprehension
Consonant Digraph
Breve
14. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Quadrigraph
Three Layers of Language
Standard Scores
Norm-Referenced Test
15. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
ESL
Old English
Expressive language
Suffix
16. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
VC
17. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Standardized test
Reliability
Syntax
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
18. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Chall's Stage 3
Percentile/ percentile rank
Breve
19. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Anglo Saxon
Modern English
Diagnostic Teaching
Standard deviation
20. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Cognition
Tactile
Texas Education Code 38.003
Chall's Stage 0
21. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Criterion referenced tests
Latin layer of language
IDEA
22. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Consonant
IDEA
Phonology
Components of Reading Instruction
23. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Synthetic Instruction
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Semantics
24. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Suffix
Digraph
Texas Education Code 38.003
Norm-Referenced Test
25. Final stable syllable
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26. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
V >
Anglo Saxon
Dyslexia
Towre
27. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Curriculum referenced tests
Syllable
Receptive language
NICHD
28. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Greek layer of language
Suffix
Progress Monitoring
29. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Syntax
Sight Words
Norm-referenced tests
30. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Greek layer of language
Phonics approach
Receptive language
Direct Instruction
31. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Vowel Digraph
Dyslexia
Frank Smith
Great Vowel Shift
32. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Norm-referenced tests
Curriculum referenced tests
Composite Score
Pre-English
33. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Grapheme
Derivative
ALTA
Affix
34. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Macron
Visual Processing
Cognition
Tactile
35. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
MSL
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Keith Stanovich
Three Layers of Language
36. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Morphology
Combination
Fluency
Towre
37. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Mathew Effect
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Old English
Sound Symbol Association
38. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
Adolf Kusmaul
Tilde
Norm-Referenced Test
39. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Receptive language
Battery
Old English
Matthew Effect
40. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Phonemic Awareness
Phoneme
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
41. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Base Word
Multisensory
Great Vowel Shift
42. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Matthew Effect
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Battery
Chall's Stage 0
44. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Quadrigraph
Ability
45. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Accommodation
Vr
Matthew Effect
Suffix
46. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Adolf Kusmaul
Texas Education Code 38.003
Phonemic/ decodable words
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
47. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Auditory Learners
Affix
Texas Education Code 28.06
48. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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49. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Vowel Digraph
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Components of Reading Instruction
Reading Comprehension Support
50. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Accommodation
James Hinshelwood
Achievement test
Linguistic Method